Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambitious new generation of white, mostly Democratic, Southern politicians swiftly spotted and responded to the signs of change. That generation came into full flower in the early '70s, with election of a remarkable group of progressive Governors: Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
...about how old people were being mistreated. Campaigning successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles walked a circuitous 1,003 well-publicized miles from Pensacola to Miami, chatting every step of the way with prospective voters about their problems. Last year, while running for Governor, Mississippi's Cliff Finch caught attention by spending a day a week working at such jobs as grocery-store clerk and bulldozer operator...
Still, their handling of racial matters is the key to the new Southern politicians. They are not colorblind. Far from it?they especially court the black vote. Mississippi's Democratic Representative David Bowen, 43, is typical. Says he: "I make a special effort to reach out. I speak in black churches and to black civic groups. I've been to dozens of black clubs and gatherings. That's not a unique situation now. Anyone in Mississippi who wants to get elected does that. These are my constituents...
...credo?and for most of this century, Southern House and Senate committee chairmen, who attained their positions through seniority, were effective against civil rights legislation. Now the Southern death grip on committee chairmanships is weakening. In the Senate, three key chairmen are expected to retire in 1979: Mississippi's James Eastland, 71 (Judiciary), Alabama's John Sparkman, 76 (Foreign Relations), and Arkansas' John McClellan, 80 (Appropriations). Mississippi's John Stennis (Armed Services) is a cinch for re-election this year, but he will be 81 when his next term ends. In each case, a Northern Senator stands next in line...
...this philosophy that links him, however uneasily and tenuously, with Black Congressman Andrew Young and Mississippi Publisher Hodding Carter III on one end of the South's political spectrum, and with George Wallace and Lester Maddox on the other end. That was the point Carter was attempting to make when he said in 1970 that Maddox "has compassion for the little man," and when he said that a Humphrey-Wallace ticket in 1972 "would do well in the South," and when he called himself "basically a redneck...